Beef Stewed with Onions

Ingredients

• a pound of tender lean Steak
• four large Spanish onions
• half an ounce of butter
• a dessert-spoonful of milk
• a little pepper
• a little salt

Method

1. 1

   Rub the inside of a stewpan with good dripping.

2. 2

   Pepper and salt the steak, lay it in the pan with sliced onions.

3. 3

   Cover and simmer gently for two hours.

4. 4

   Serve the steak with onions and pour the gravy over.

As published

This recipe was extracted from A year's cookery (1880) by Phillis Browne, page 297. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Beef Stewed with Onions. Hot Buttered Toast. Rice and Cheese. Baked Potatoes. Dry Toast. Brown and White Bread and Butter. Watercress. Oatmeal Porridge. Nottingham Pudding. Cheese. Marketing. For the Day.— A pair of thick Soles (January 3rd) ; two'pounds of tender lean Steak (January 1st) ; Apples ; Potatoes; Onions; a dozen fresh Herrings. For To-morrow.— Order half a fresh Ox-Kidney to he sent in good time in the morning; Mustard and Cress; Muffins (January 29th). Breakfast. — Poached Eggs (February 6th); Bacon (January 19tli) ; Porridge (January 25th). Luncheon. — Babbit Gateau (July 9th), made of the cold rabbit ; Haricot Beans (Note 3, November 2nd); Bice and Cheese (February iSth). Dinner. — Sole au Gratin (May 3rd). Beej ' Stewed with Onions. — Bub the inside of a stewpan with good dripping. Pepper the steak, and salt it lightly. Lay it in the pan, and with it four large Spanish onions cut into thin slices. Cover the saucepan closely, place it at the side of the fire, and let it simmer gently for two hours. Put the steak on a dish, place the onions upon it, and pour the gravy over all. It will be found that the onions will yield sufficient gravy, so that there will be no occasion to put any sauce in the pan. Those who are very partial to the flavour of onions will like this dish ; others had better avoid it. Baked Potatoes (May 4th). Nottingham Pudding. — Make a little good batter ( see Toad in the Hole, January 15th). Peel and core half a dozen good baking apples. Fill the hollow in the middle with sugar, and sprinkle powdered cinnamon or nutmeg on the top. Place the apples in a buttered dish, pour the batter round them, and bake in a good oven. Cheese (June 8th). Tilings that must not be Forgotten. 1. The batter will be better if made some hours before it ia wanted. 2. Pickle the fresh herrings bought this morning (August 20th). 3. Preserve any beef that may be left. 4 Turn and rub the ox-tongue in the brine. 380 A YEARS COOKERY. November 4th. Breakfast. Luncheon. Dinner. Pickled Herrings. Shepherd’s Pie. Kidney Soup. Buttered Eggs. Baked Omelet. Loin of Mutton, Stuffed and Muffins. Rolled. Dry Toast. Boiled Parsnips. Brown and White Bread Potatoes. and Butter, Rice Gateau. Mustard and Cress. Bread and Milk. Cheese. / Marketing. For tlie Day.— Half an Ox- Kidney, ordered yesterday ; about four pounds of the best end of a Loin of Mutton. The butcher should be asked to bone the joint. Parsnips ; Potatoes ; Parsley, For To-morrow.— A tin of Potted Grouse (January 7th). Breakfast. — Pickled Herrings (August 20th) ; Buttered Eggs (January 16th) ; Muffins (January 30th) ; Bread and Milk (January 25th). Luncheon. — Shepherd’s Pie (January 12th) ; Baked Omelet (August 6tli). Dinner. — Kidney Soup (February 27th) ; Loin of Mutton, Stuffed and Rolled (April 22nd) ; Boiled Parsnips (September 30th). Potato Croquettes. — This is an excellent and tasteful way of serving potatoes. Take as many potatoes as are likely to be required, wash, scrub, and peel them. Supposing there is one pound of potatoes, boil them in the usual way (April 7th), and rub them whilst hot through a wire sieve. Melt half an ounce of butter in a stewpan, put in a dessert-spoonful of milk, and add the sifted potato. Mix smoothly over the fire, then put the stewpan on one side, and add the yolk of a fresh egg lightly beaten, a table-spoonful of chopped parsley, and a little pepper

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